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The Cherokee Georgian.
EQUINOCTIAL.
The sun of life has crossed the line,
The summer shine of lengthened light
Faded andjailed—till, where I stand,
’Tis equal day and equal night.
One after another, as dwindling hours,
Youth’s glowing hopes have dropped
away,
And soon may barely leave a gleam
That coldly scores a winter’s day.
I am not young, I am not old ;
The flash of morn, the sunset calm,
Paling and deepening, each to each,
Meet midway with a solemn charm.
One side I see the summer fields
Not yet disrobed of all their green ;
While westerly, along the hills,
Flame the first tints of frosty sheen.
Ah! middle point where clouds and storm
Make battle-ground of this my life !
Where, even matched, the night and day
Wage round me their September strife!
I bow me to the threatening gale;
I know, when that is overpast,
Among the peaceful harvest days
An Indian summer comes at last.
FARM AND GRANGE.
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On June 1,1875, there were 23,458 sub
ordinate granges in the United States.
The Department of Agriculture esti
mates the wheat crop of 1875 at 246,000,000
bushels.
A farmer in Spencer, Maryland, set out
an acre of mullein by mistake, thinking it
to be tobacco.
Potatoes will be more plentiful and cheap
in many parts of the West than they have
been for a number of years.
J. M. Brown of Surry county, North
Carolina, planted 250 acres in tobacco this
season, requiring 1,250,000 plants.
This year the declared value of poultry
and game imported into England increased
to £131,587, against £112,575 m 1874.
In less than six hours a steam thresher
in Michigan threshed 390 bushels of wheat,
dlftyof barley, and twenty-eight of oats.
Thirty-four Leicester rams recently sold
in England at a public sale for $3,080. One
ram brought S6OO, and was purchased to
be shipped to New Zealand.
There is a scarcity of meat in England,
and an association was formed in London
recently to secure a supply of live cattle
from the United States to meet the wants
of the English market.
Cotton receipts at all United States ports
for the year ending August 31, amounted to
3.473.634 bales, and estimating overland
and Southern consumption at 350,000 bales,
the total crop of 1874-5 may be set down as
3.823.634 bales.
The members of Pine Ridge grange, Ad
ams county, Mississippi, are about to estab
lish a cotton factory at Natchez. They
propose to issue 2,400 shares ol a par value
of $25 each, which will give a capital
stock, when paid up, of $60,000.
D. Wyatt Aiken of South Carolina
Claims that Northern farmers make less
money than Southern farmers. He con
siders a first-class Southern farm which
does not give a net income of ten per cent,
a failure. Ho rents his land to negroes, and
has had little difficulty.
The American Agriculturist says it has
been found by experiment that one inch
below the surface every seed of wheat
grew, where the ground was moist, while
at two inches seven-eighths of the seed
grew, and at three inches three quarters
grew. Notwithstanding this, we would
rather sow two inches deep than one inch.
The Statistical bureau issues an amended
report of the crop condition, which shows,
as to the cotton States, an improved condi
tion over hist year of 10’£ per cent. If all
these States contributed in equal proportion
to the crop, this would make an aggregate
addition to the yield of last year, say of
ftboht 400,000 bags.
To have plenty of eggs in winter, the
fowls must have warm roosting and nesting
places; warm food, if possible, with some
kind of animal food once a day, and water
to drink at will. Gravel and lime must
be always at. hand, and the poultry-house
must be kept scrupulously clean, and the
fowls out of the way of vermin, and free
from lice.
The Patrons at Albany, Oregon, have a
warehouse that holds 120,000 bushels of
wheat, and they intend to fit up another
one of the same size, and a flouring-mill
that will grind 200,000 bushels of wheat,
so they can make their own flour. A store,
is also projected, though the merchants of
that vicinity have largely reduced their
rates to Patrons.
The consumption of linens is greater in
America, in proportion to its population,
than in any other country in the world.
During 1873, the United States imported
3,059 tons of raw flax in addition to flax
manufactures ami flax se d, making an ag
gregate of $22,823,026 in gold. A large
proportion of this might have been saved
by the utilization of the flax straw or
Stalks, wasted because of the lack of tin'
Accessary machinery to get it into market
able shape.
In order to ascertain the gain in weight
of growing cattle, nn • xperinvut v> is tried
as follows; A ;’ <>it born bnll-ea’f was
weighed on the 12lh of April. 1871. when
he was just fourteen months old, and his
weight was found to he 503 pounds. May
13th he weighed 592 pounds ; June 12, 703
pounds; July 12, SOI pounds; August 12.
SBO pounds, and S ptcmlar 12.1.200 pounds
—a total gain u> five months of 463 pounds
or92kj pounds ja r month.
I*\V AS YOU GO.
I.et firmer, imvh;iuic, and men haul
ro!H'’ > s-rdd. to the e.isli system’—!
cial y I l the I’.dou d>> >, t<*r up->n tuts
rock have we built ur order. Begin econo
oray in all things; a just economy is the
first sentence in the new ritual—the plant
ing and raising of your own subsistence.
When this is successfully practiced by the
farmer of the South, the thing is accom
plished, and “Pay as you go” will become
as well as the other the permanent word
that will open the outer gate of every true
grange. And, to assist in this, let the coun
try merchant begin to buy for cash, sell for
cash, and then he as well as the farmer can
appeal directly to the banks in his commer
cial transactions. So much for one of our
purposes.—[Co-operative News, La.
VALUE OF EVERGREENS.
A well-known evergreen tree gives out
continually an exuvium of warmth and
moisture that reaches a distance of its area
in height; and when tree planters advocate
shelter belts, surrounding a tract of orchard
fifty or more acies, when the influence of
snch belt can only trace a distance of the
height of trees on said belt, they will do
that which will prove of little value. To
ameliorate climate, to assist in prevention
of injury against extreme climatic cold in
winter and of the frosting of the germ bud
of fruit in the spring, all orchards should
have planted, in and among them indis
criminately, evergreen trees at distance each
of not more than 150 feet apart. Such a
course pursued will give health to the tree,
and be productive of more regular and uni
form crops of fruit. At all events, it is
worth the trial, ane we shall be glad if our
readers can inform us of practical experi
ment on the subject.—[Scientific American.
PROVIDE AGAINST “HARD TIMES.”
As you have suffered from ‘ hard times,”
so you should seek to provide against their
return. Garner and closely husband from
(he rich crops of the present season all that
industry and economy will permit. Allow
no useless and careless waste about your
farms. Let a manly and noble emulation
stimulate every one, not only in who shall
produce the better crop, but as to who shall
save the most by a judicious management
of his crop after it is made and harvested.
Shining prospects of a large crop and flat
tering hopes of great profits are apt to lead
us into extravagant indulgences and un
necessary expenditures. You should be
cautious to circumscribe your wants and
keep them within the limits of your in
come. Through your grange you have re
duced the profits upon what you consume,
so you should, by co-operation, endeavor io
reduce the price of commissions you pay
for the handling of your products.—[W. W.
Lang, Master of Texas State Grange.
THE MODEL SHEEP MAN.
The best sheep man we have ever heard
of was a soldier of Stonewall Jackson who
saw somewhere how valuable sheep are for
renovating worn-out land, and after the
cruel war was over he went home to his
poor farm and bought thirteen ewes—all
that he was able to buy. He put them in a
small field of weeds and briers, which they
soon destroyed. Then he fed them on bran
and meal in the winter., and in the spring
he had thirteen fine lambs. Saving the
manure, he planted the old brier patch
with corn, and narvested a fine crop. All
his spare time was devoted to caring for
his sheep. The next spring he bad more
lambs; he was able to plant more corn;
then came more lambs, when he sowed
clover and grew turnips ; and now, to-day,
as the result of such small beginnings, he
has several hundred fine young sheep, free
from disease, bringing him $2,000 a year,
while his farm has become exceedingly fer
tile, and he is a rich man. We know thou
sands and thousands of poor young men
who have a free course open to them to be
come wealthy by beginning in a small way.
But the trouble is, the way is too humble
and slow ; they want to get along faster ;
they have no patience, no faith, no pluck.
Truly, it does seem small business to watch
a dozen sheep, as if it were beneath the at
tention of a bright American youth ; but if
said youth will look the subject all over, he
will sec it worthy of all his powers. A
young man can well afford to sit down with
a dozen sheep on the plains, live in a dug
out, and feed on antelope meat, rather than
undertake to become independent in a city
on a clerkship of SI,OOO a year.
A Few Rules for Daily Life.—Do
not express your opinion too freely and de
cidedly when it differs from those around
you.
Try so give up your will and way to oth
ers in trifles as in more important matters,
except where principle is involved.
Do not complain of little discomforts, but
bear them cheerfully.
Tiy to avoid making disagreeable re
marks of any description, and make no
unpleasant comparisons.
Do not perform disagreeable duties with
a martyr like air, but always cheerfully.
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Germany has twenty one universities,
i tke principal ones being Leipsic, Berlin.
, and Heidelberg. Lcip.dc has always between
2,000 nnd 2,560. .students, about 200 or 300
studying chemistry.----U>> i lin has between
1,500 and 2,000 students, -juo studying
chemistry. Heidelberu h:is ata*Qt 1,000
students, ot whom about 100 study Chem
istry There are also nine large polytech
nic. schools, the two largest being in Mun-
I ehen and S.uttgart ; many private labora-
I tones, the largest in Germ my being at Weis
iba leu, with about niuelj students under
Pi; lessor Frisenius
Yot ng man, you feel a superiority to the
, human race as you stand nt the altar with
your fair voting bride. You would not
' cluing" pl ices with the President. Yet a
few short years, a few whiskings of broom
handles, an untimely stoppage or twoot
walled flat-irons, and your weary body will
rot un.br the -hading willow, w hile some
young gal! mt w ill bring your late afflicted
p.utiar our to the cemetery on a calm Sab
bath evening and whisper love in her ear.
aS together they strew peanut shells over
vn>ir gr?.v(>. “Oh. why Should the spirit of
mortal be proud?”
MONEY MADE.
I desire to call the attention of all
those who owe me anything, that
lheir accounts and notes are now
due, and that I am compelled to
have money. We have been bless
ed with bountiful crops, and all t
can pay who are so disposed, as I
will take corn, fodder, wheat, oats,
rye, cotton, peas, potatoes, pork,
and almost everything, in payment
of debts due me. So 1 hope my
old friends and customers will re
spond liberally to this call, for by
so doing they will save cost and
their good name at the same time.
I mean business, when I say that I
am compelled to have money. All
those who are indebted to the firm
of McAfee & Moss must pay their
accounts and notes at once. Those
failing to do so, or to make satis
factory arrangements, will certainly
find their accounts in the hands of
collecting officers.
I want to purchase 10,000 bun
dles of fodder and 1,000 bushels of
corn, for which I will pay goods or
cash to those not indebted to me.
I have now got, and am receiv
ing daily, one of the largest and
best selected stocks of goods ever
exhibited in North Georgia, which
I propose to sell very cheap for
cash or barter. I am determined
to sell as low as the lowest, as my
experience in business and facili
ties for buying are not excelled by
any in this country. We—l mean
myself and clerks —invite all the
children and ladies to call before
purchasing elsewhere, as we will
give all the children candy and
love all the ladies.
9 J M. McAFEE.
CARTERSVILLE
SALE & LIVERY STABLE
BY
Roberts <fc Stephens,
(Successors to Roberts & Tuinlin.)
This is one of the largest ami best ar
ranged establishments in North Georgia.
The building is eligibly situated near the
depot and court-house, and is well stocked
with
GOOD HORSES AND SUPERIOR VEHICLES,
which are ready at all times for those who
wish to ride, either on bu-iness or for plea
sure. The proprietors keep constantly on
hand a
GOOD SUPPLY OF FOOD FOR HORSES,
and have in their employ faithful grooms
to take care of slock left in their charge.
We will
BUY, SELL, AND EXCHANGE
Horses and Mules on wry accommodating
terms. jal ly
CHEAP CASH STORE.
W. JI. ELLIS,
Second door west from corner Gainesville
and Marietta streets,
CANTON, GA.,
Dealer in
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS,
~ GROCERIES AND HARDWARE.
Will n'Njo a m wril Bartering business,
and allow tlißxjiigh' st market prices f«»r
cc-iintry preduceSG’ will In- to yniw inter
est io call and examine my stock and prices
before purchasing elsewhere You will
fintl gOO Is at the old pric< «Mpr cash,
8-tv W X ELLIS.
Mrs. M. A. Smith, Canton,
HAIR WORK ER,
Manufactures hair into an kinds
ol brahU, ringlets, sells, bracelet,
watch-guards, necklaces, etc. Will insure
satisfaction in quality of work and price.
Ail gr (des of mounting furnished when de
sin d. Call and see style of woik, on Ma
lieUa Street. 4 3ua
Brewster, Sharp &Dowda,
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REAL ESTATE,
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FAY
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